Geotic

Los Angeles native Will Wiesenfeld achieved his widest recognition via the Anticon-signed indie electronic project Baths, yet he has issued even more material under the ambient alias Geotic. Baths draws inspiration from underground hip-hop and indie pop and carries Wiesenfeld’s own label of “active listening,” while Geotic functions as his counterpart “passive listening” outlet. Its recordings weave in field recordings, pianos, guitars, light distortion, and occasional vocals and beats to produce warm, relaxed, and reflective results. Wiesenfeld first issued work as [Post-foetus] in 2007 before introducing Geotic through a run of self-released albums and EPs in 2008, among them the field-recording set Gentle Breeze and the fuzzy downtempo collection Winter Loops. Additional Geotic titles followed, leading to a 2011 tour shared with Dntel and the One AM Radio that yielded the collaborative remix EP The Soft Alarm Tour.

Wiesenfeld then suspended Geotic to concentrate on Baths, resulting in the full-length Obsidian and the subsequent EP Ocean Death. Geotic resurfaced in 2014 with the launch of Eon Isle, a sequence of albums each built around a single instrument; Morning Shore employed only guitar, and Sunset Mountain used solely vocals. A piano-centered installment titled Evening Sky had been slated for 2015 but failed to appear, giving way instead to the two-track ambient drone album Neptune. In 2017 Geotic entered the Ghostly International roster with the lush ambient techno full-length Abysma, which was followed the next year by the bright Traversa.